20 FISH LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO RIVER STATES. 
VII. DEFINITIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. | 
Arkansas.—The term ‘‘ waters”’ is defined to include those wholly or partly within 
the State (56). Milldam owners must provide a fish chute, and owners of other obstruc- 
tions must make an opening to allow the passage of fish from March 1 toJunel. (1899, 
act 188.) 
Dealers must keep records of their transactions (20); they have five days after the 
end of the open season in which to dispose of fish (48). The game and fish commission 
may regulate private propagation (8). 
Ilinois.—‘‘Objectionable” fish is defined to mean gar and gizzard shad (51). 
Dam owners shall erect and maintain fishways (49). Licensees to take mussels must 
report annually (58). 
Indiana.—Private pond is defined to include any body of water not greater than 
20 acres in area lying wholly within the land of the owner (2533c). Except dams, 
obstructions to fish movements shall not be placed across streams (2544, 2545). Owners 
of dams 4 feet or more high must construct and maintain fishways as directed by the 
commissioner of fisheries (7442-7449). 
Iowa.—‘‘Game” fish is defined by the department of fish and game to include any 
food fish that takes a live bait. Cities and towns may prevent the escape of fish from 
boundary lakes (17). Dams or obstructions shall not be erected or maintained without 
a fishway constructed according to plans furnished by the State warden; nor shall 
pumping stations, other than sand pumps or dredging machines, be operated without 
guard screens constructed according to plans so furnished (16). 
Kentucky.—Dam owners must maintain fish ladders during April, May and June, 
except where the ‘‘annual tides” are sufficiently high to admit the passage of fish 
over the dams (1392a). 
Louisiana.—Intake pipes for irrigation must be screened to prevent the entrance 
of fish, except on the Mississippi River (56). No person shall obstruct by means of 
rack, screen, or other device the passage of fish protected by law (53). 
Fish may be had in possession five days after the end of the open season (39). Dealers 
must report to the department (35, 36). The department may adopt regulations 
for the comprehensive control of fish, and shall assist in protecting private ponds 
(1912, act 127, sec. 2); it may prescribe regulations for stocked streams (51) and may 
regulate seines, hoop nets, and set lines (42). No spawn, fish, reptile, or amphibian 
except turtles from without the State shall be liberated without permission from the 
department. (50; 1918, house bill 120.) 
ame and fish preserves are established. (1910, act 273, and 1912, act 172.) 
Minnesota.—Persons owning or controlling dams or other obstructions must con- 
struct and maintain fishways (4772). Counties may screen navigable lakes that have 
been stocked by the United States. (1913, ch. 87.) For the purpose of commercial 
trout culture the game and fish commission may authorize the maintenance of fish 
screens (4861). 
It is unlawful to have fish in possession if unlawfully taken without the State (4785). 
Fish taken in international waters may be retained one week after the end of the fish- 
ing season. (1917, chs. 96 and 333.) 
Reports must be made to the commission by fishermen netting in international 
a (1917, ch.96), clammers (1917, ch.471), and seiners in certain waters (1915, ch. 
61). 
Obstructing seiners is prohibited. (1917, ch. 452.) 
Chapter 505 of 1917 provides for warden supervision of net fishing in interstate 
waters, but does not go into effect until a similar act is passed by Wisconsin. 
Missouri.—Fish may be had in possession five days after the end of the open season 
(6522). Persons owning or using dams shall construct fish ladders as prescribed by 
the game and fish commissioner, and shall keep them open March, April, May, and 
June if there is waste water available (6552). 
Ohio.—Lake Erie and inland fishing districts are respectively defined (1425). 
On petition of 500 or more freeholders the county commissioners shall erect or main- 
tain fishways over dams; on State dams this shall be done by the board of public 
works. (1910, Gen. Code, sec. 2496.) Except in Lake Erie, wardens may remove 
obstructions other than milldams (1448). 
Private ponds are excepted from the restrictions on the manner of capture (1456). 
Fishermen must allow State spawn takers on board and permit the taking of spawn 
(1455). Licensees must make annual reports (1437-1). 
Except shad, mackerel, and herring, all fish sold in barrels or casks must be inspected 
and branded; regulations are made as to size of barrel and other matters (5987, 6010- 
6019). Possibly these regulations relate to preserved fish only. 
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